Interesting piece.. On Monday, the Discovery Channel, which co-produced the series, confirmed that Attenborough's final episode will be screened in the US from next March long with the rest of the series. The announcement ended speculation that the final episode would be dropped for US audiences bec...

Hi Rainy Yes - he should know better. You should also read my article in the Skeptic, if you have not already done so, which will give some other angles. I have the read the Skeptic article but not for a long time so time for a re-read me thinks! This might sound odd, and I would put it more elegan...

No, not quite. Firstly, blind people can hallucinate. This has been known to neurology for decades. Secondly, yes, blind people can describe visual items in their hallucinations, for a number of reasons. I've already noted that very few blind people (indeed, if any) truly experience no visual infor...

So do blind at birth people report ''seeing'' in dreams? What is going on, if so? If I had to guess I'd say it's due to things like proprioception Close your eyes. Hold your hand in front of your face. Open and close you hand, wiggle your fingers. When you do this can you "see" your hand in your mi...

I thought touch was essential for this illusion but People with an anaesthetised finger can be convinced that a plastic finger is their own, in a modified version of the famous "rubber hand illusion". This suggests that the sense of touch is not essential to conjure up the illusion, as our muscles a...